“Eavesdropping is for bitches, Son, next time walk into the room like you belong,” she said before stepping around him and walking down the stairs.
He went to his room and flopped on the bed, before getting dressed. It was the perfect opportunity to prove to his father that he could move with his soldiers. Knowing that Duke wasn’t a threat, he had to dig deeper into the streets. The first person he was going to talk to was Jatara, she knew everything that went on in the hood.
As soon as he pulled on her block, he noticed Diamond and her sisters walking up the block fresh as a bitch. Diamond was Farrah’s fly and he knew she couldn’t afford that shit, but he also knew that she wasn’t in the streets, so he thought nothing of it.
“What’s up, Dime?” he called out as she got closer. She flashed a slight smile and spoke back, but she didn’t stop walking. He didn’t like that shit one bit, but he didn’t press her, he was on a mission.
He walked on Jatara’s porch where she sat with her face frowned.
“What’s wrong with you?” he took a seat on the concrete stairs.
“Them bitches think they all that because they got a little money flowing.”
“I thought you and Kayla was like best friends or some shit.”
“We was but she let Diamond tell her what to do all the time.”
“That ain’t why I’m here.”
Her mood instantly lightened, “Why you here then?”
He frowned a little because he knew damn well she didn’t think he was trying to fuck with her like that.
“Who hustlin’ over here?”
“Duke.”
“Nah, I meanreallygetting money.”
“Shid, yo daddy.”
From the sound of it, Cam was going to have to work harder than he thought. Whoever it was better had been running an airtight operation because the Stones were on the prowl.
After falling short with Jatara, he remembered what Ace said, the first fiend he saw, press ‘em, and he saw one walking fast. He hopped off the porch and followed behind the woman, she turned in the alley and so did he.
“Aye.” She stopped and turned around.
“Yeah?”
“Comere, lemme ask you something.”
The closer the woman got, the more familiar she looked, she looked like Diamond or Diamond looked like her. He had never seen her mother, but he was sure that was her. His words got stuck in his throat because it all started to make sense, that’s why Diamond was so defensive and tough, she had to be.
“Yeah?”
Cam could tell the woman was intelligent, he didn’t understand why she was out there bad.
“Never mind.”
He couldn’t bring himself to press Diamond’s mother, he turned and walked away.
“What you doing around these parts, Daddy’s boy?”
Cam turned around when he heard Duke’s voice, it was no secret that Cam was privileged, he wore that proudly. What niggas like Duke failed to realize was that he was privileged, not pussy. Cameron always had the heart of the biggest lion; he wasn’t afraid of shit, especially not Duke.
“I go where I want, freely, you know that.”
“Since when nigga? You go in the crib when the streetlights come on.” Duke joked but with a mug on his face.
